Monday, September 19, 1994
Page 9
Nine Inch Nails’
By Jo«l Strauch
Senior Reporter
Get ready to mosh!
The industrial music of Trent
Reznor is coming to Omaha. Nine
Inch Nails are going to be ham
mered into the Civic Auditorium
tonight.
This year Reznor put out the
concept album “The Downward
Spiral.” It debuted at the No. 2
position on the Billboard album
chart.
As if that wasn’t enough for one
year, he also produced the
soundtrack for the Oliver Stone
film “Natural Bom Killers.”
Scott Perry, the publicist for
Nine Inch Nails, said this album
was unlike any other soundtrack
that ever had been released.
“It’s a fitting companion for the
movie itself,” Perry said.
During the first week of its re
lease, the album sold more than
28,000 copies, he said.
Perry thought that perhaps the
concept for the album had been a
shared musical vision between
Stone and Reznor.
“I don’t know, maybe Trent and
Oliver met at a party and said
‘Let’s do this,”’ he said.
According to Perry, Reznor is
getting ready to shoot another
video and complete his American
tour.
“The tour’s been going awe
some,” he said. “Every show has
been selling out. Trent’s always
tinkering with'things on the road,
trying to make the show the best it
can be,” he said.
The Civic Auditorium has been
doing some tinkering of its own to
prepare for the concert.
Joan Baillon, public events
marketing coordinator for the
Civic, said, “The auditorium has
purchased an arena division cur
tain to mask off part of the arena
to make it a smaller house.
“We will have a capacity of
5,000 instead of the normal
10,950,” she said.
“Nine Inch Nails wanted a cer
tain size house, and with the new
curtain we were able to accommo
date them,” she said. •
Joining Nine Inch Nails will be
the Jim Rose Circus. This troupe
of human oddities will be making
its first arena tour since
Lollapalooza ’92.
“Jim Rose is MC for his little
group of freaks,” Perry said.
One of these “freaks” is Mark
“The Knife” Faje, who will be bal
ancing a running lawn mower on
his chin while he throws heads of
lettuce into it.
Another member of the troupe
is the Amazing Mr. Lifto, who lifts
things using various rings pierced
into his body.
“It’s disgusting, but it’s compel
ling,” Percy said. “You’re forced
to watch it.”
Nine Inch Nails, along with the
Jim Rose Circus, promises a show
that most of the family would not
enjoy.
Quik Facts
"Slum: Nine Inch Nails
At: Omaha Civic Auditorium
Time: 7:30 tonight
Tickets: $20 plus handling
charge; available through
Ticketmaster
music to hammer Omaha
Courtesy of Nothing/TVT/Interscope Record
Tfnut Raznor, center, Is the melcsl fores bsMnd Nine Inch Nalls. The group will
7:30 concert tonight at 0«alia’s Civic Auditorium.
‘Timecop’ is worth the time
By Otry —Ita
Staff Reporter
It looks like Jean-Claude Van
Damme finally has done it. With
the release of “Timecop,” he will
be counted among the current big
three action-adventure types.
Stallone and Schwarzenegger
have the two top spots (constantly
switching back and forth), and the
former No. 3 — Steven Seagal —
dropped down to No. 4 after the
highly disappointing “On Deadly
Ground.”
But can Van Damme hold on to
his new status? Only time will tell,
but with hope, he’ll keep the longer
hair that he had for both
“Timecop” and “Hard Target.” The
short, cropped look makes Van
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Damme look like he's wearing a
“Flash Gordon” space helmet.
Director Peter Hyams (“2010,”
“Outland”) has put together an
other great film to add to his al
ready-impressive resume. He and
Van Damme soon will be teaming
up again to film “Sudden Death,"
a film mixing action and... hockey.
In “Timecop,” the year is 1994.
time travel has become possible,
and our hero Max Walker (Van
Damme) is about to become an of
ficer for the Time Enforcement
Commission, headed up by the
highly ambitious Sen. Aaron
McComb (wonderfully played by
Ron Silver).
Unfortunately, Max and his
wife, Melissa (Mia Sara, “Ferris
Bueller's Day Off”), are attacked
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Courtesy of Universal Pictures
JoanClaudo Van Damme, toft, plays Max Walksr and
Ron Sltvor plays Son. Aaron McComb In “Tlmocop."
by a group of thugs. Max is left for
dead, and his house is blown up
with Melissa inside.
Jump ahead 10 years. McComb
is making a bid for the presidency
but is running out of campaign
money. Walker has let his hair
grow out and has just tracked down
his ex-partner, whom Walker dis
covers has been illegally raising
campaign money for McComb via
time travel.
Unfortunately for Walker,
McComb finds out what was said,
and after unsuccessful attempts to
kill Walker, McComb decides to
have him erased from existence.
NO, SCHWARZENEGGER IS
NOT SENT BACK IN TIME TO
KILL LINDA HAMILTON.
The special effects in
‘Timecop” are definitely worth the
cost of a ticket. The time-ripple
effect is excellent, as are the set and
costume designs. Also, the usually
poor attempt at “twinning” — hav
ing two characters played by the
same actor onscreen at the same
time — comes off well in
“Timecop.”
Unfortunately, the movie is not
without its faults. If not for the
gaping holes in the plot, the movie
could have received an A grade.
It is fairly obvious that Van
Damme never will be seen in the
ranks of brilliant performers such
as Anthony Hopkins and Sean
Connery, but “Timecop” is a defi
nite step up for him. Van Damme’s
more recent dialogue and perfor
mances are better than those in his
Quik Facts
IMovie: “Timecop”
Rating: R
Stars: Jean-Claude Van
Damme, Ron Silver, Mia
Sara
Director: Peter Hyams
Grade: B
Five Words: violent but
enjoyable action film
older work, asking for more than
a “grunt-and-triple-spinkick” re
sponse.
Silver is also great. He doesn’t
get much time in the film, but it is
obvious that he had fun with the
role he was playing: a mega-am
bitious, ultra-sleazy, heartless
senator occupied only with his own
personal ambitions (where would
he ever get ideals like these?).
Anyone thinking about sending
their kids to this flick should be
told about several buckets of blood,
one naked butt-bobbing scene be
tween Sara and Van Damme, two
barbecued army guys and one guy
that gets his arm frozen solid and
then shattered. Another scene not
for the squeamish is the one in
which Van Damme pulls his
“groin-stretching” maneuver to
avoid electrocution.
But overall, it’s a decent flick.
Take some time to to catch
“Timecop.”
Musical
opens door
to spirit
By Rainbow Rowll
Senior Editor
A door opened at the Lied
Center this weekend. A per
haps forgotten door leading to
all that is good and exciting
and entertaining about the
American musical.
Broadway's “The Secret
Garden” stopped in town,
sharing an enchanting tale of
rebirth with Lincoln audi
ences.
The musical, based on the
classic children’s book by
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
tells the story of Mary Lennox,
an orphan sent to live with her
widower uncle after her par
ents die of cholera in India.
Mary, played sincerely and
eloquently by Rebecca
Stevens, arrives at the house
stubborn and mean. Her
hunchbacked Uncle Archibald
(Ted Anderson) does not want
to see her. She closely re
sembles his wife, Lily, whose
death still haunts him.
He greets her, saying, “I
offer you my deepest sympa
thies on your arrival.”
So Mary is left to amuse
herself in the house’s many
maze-1 ike gardens. Here she
discovers her Aunt Lily's gar
den, long-ago locked by her
uncle.
See GARDEN on 10